Recent achievements and research initiated in the Swedish plastics and rubber industry.
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The improvement in exposure conditions in the Swedish vinyl chloride producing industry is reported. The article comments on the technology and control methods by which the vinyl chloride concentration has been lowered to less than 1 ppm vinyl chloride. Two epidemiological retrospective cohort studies are presently under way on workers in PVC-utilizing industries and in the rubber industry.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
دوره 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1976